Saturday, January 7, 2012

Olympus India – Olympus SZ-30MR review and India price

Electronics
field is bringing impossible to possible. Electronics is the only field where
today’s dream is tomorrow’s reality. Many times it has been observed that, many
inventions look impossible for current science and technology. However those
inventions take shape and come in to reality in future.

Few
years back, people felt that 10x optical zoom camera is the highest inventions
in camera one can achieve. But the reality is different. People are not even
thinking buying camera below 1x optical zoom. Same is the case with megapixels.
8 megapixels was the limit but today camera with 8 Mega pixels is considered
outdated.

More the Pixels, Worse the Image

The
digital cameras means fixed lens digital cameras were facing unique problem. If
you increase the megapixels limit then picture clarity gets diminished. Same
difficulty was also observed in digital zoom and optical zoom. As optical and
digital zoom increased, picture clarity was affected. Obviously before 5 years,
doubling the megapixels capacity or doubling zoom capability for fixed lens
digital camera was impossible.

Why?

Well
Gadgets are becoming more and more compact and camera is no exception to the
compact taste of customers. So the compact cameras have to be small and
reasonably priced. To cater this need, small image sensors were used in the
cameras. Now if I want to increase the pixel count then I have to divide the
sensor in smaller and smaller parts. This decreases sensitivity of camera and
increases noise in the picture taken as amount of light collected by pixel is
smaller.

Also
if you plan to increase pixel, resolution gets increased. So fulfil this need,
better lenses with higher resolution capability required which are bigger in
size and hence cannot fit in small and compact cameras.

Problem solved

Obviously, if you wanted to
make fixed lens camera small pocketsize with high pixels, was next to
impossible.

The zoom is optical zoom with
24x (wide). Olympus SZ-30MR uses BSI CMOS image sensor and has two image
processing chips. Two image processing chips is winning point in Olympus
SZ-30MR. The 24x zoom provides you image
with 16 megapixels. This was really a great experience.

Look and Feel

The look and feel of Olympus
SZ-30Mr is very attractive having an excellent grip on the right hand side to
hold the camera. While taking photo your thumb will go to back side of camera
where a rubber grip is also provided which eases the overall camera usage to
the great extent.

Resolution
– 46000 dots

The rear screen resolution is
of 460000dots. This screen provides ultimate quality picture.

Multi
Recording

The awesome feature of
Olympus SZ—30MR is Multi Recording. This coolest feature introduced in Olympus
SZ-30MR allows you take 2 photos, or 2 videos or 1 photo and 1 video
simultaneously. In many cameras you could use only one more at a time either
video or photo. Olympus SZ-30Mr solved this problem. To ease the usage of
different modes simultaneously a red colour button provided near screen on top.
When you press this button immediately, video or photo mode starts. It is very
important to notice that, you cannot change exposure and focus settings while
selecting other simultaneous modes. These settings have to be used in both
modes and cannot be changed during multi recording.

Useful Modes –

ØiAuto –
Similar to conventional shooting mode.

ØProgramme Automatic - denoted with a simple
camera icon on the mode dial - gives you access to the largest number of
settings, including flash, macro and drive modes, ISO sensitivity, exposure
compensation and the self-timer.

Ø3D Photos - In this mode, you take a photo
of you, then shift the camera by a few centimetres to one side and take another
shot. The SZ-30MR then combines the two pictures into a single 3D image and
saves it. This photo then can be viewed on 3D compatible devices.

ØMicro
and SuperMicro – Many digital cameras don’t provide micro mode in video mode.
However, Olympus SZ-30MR has this facility.

Pin hole magic mode gives
same effect as the old pin cameras used to give. Fisheye effect is also better.
Fisheye effect will be good choice for landscape photography shots and gives
best pictures. Various modes effects can be viewed on Drawing mode. However drawing
mode has limitations and was vividly observed during review.

Soft focus is really a heart
winning mode for artistic photo shoots. Pop art has become very famous especially
in youngsters. You will have to decide which mode is suitable for which type of
shots from your own experiences.

Panorama
Mode –

Panorama mode has become very
famous since last few years. Sony cameras are known for best quality panorama
shoots. Olympus SZ-30MR also has Panorama mode. There are two ways to take
panorama shots – Manual and Automatic. In auto, you have to move your camera in
the direction of arrow displayed on the screen. Rest of the work required for
panorama is done automatically by Olympus SZ-30MR camera. In case of manual,
you will have to start taking next photo from previous photo’s end.

Flash

Flash is provided as pop up
flash. On the button press present on the left hand side of lens flash pops up.
The important thing noticed during review was, while taking shots in few modes
at night, considerable amount of noise was introduced in the photo.

Shot
to shot –

Shot to shot performance is
good in Olympus SZ-30MR. Speed is 1.8 seconds. However, SZ-30MR takes few
seconds more while zoom focussing. Olympus SZ-30MR claims that the frames speed
as 7 screens per second. Actually the average speed is 5.8 frames per second. Nonetheless
this is also extremely good and gives good performance.

Holiday
Requirements –

On holiday we have 2-3
requirements. Important is zoom quality to get distant pictures and close up
quality to get nearby shots. Olympus SZ-30Mr fulfils both the requirements. One
more benefit is that, you don’t have to carry another video camera as video and
photo shoot is done with same capability and quality is best in both.

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